Who's to say the people working for the outsourced outfit weren't paid well? I'm sure the standard of living in India is a lot cheaper than in the US, so even though the wages are lower, they might be a windfall for that region.
I think the AC was saying that once the finance hubs move away from the US (which has already happened, I don't think that the US has any significant investment banks left, not sure though, but many of them definitely ceased to do IB activities) and start building up in Asia, then Wall Street will start fighting against outsourcing of work, such as all the financial stuff they overcharge their clients for. Then they'll join the assembly workers in the picket lines with signs and chants.
Gaming on touchscreen phones doesn't suck. It has it's strong points and uses. But I see it as a different market. It's the '5 minute time waster' market that was already growing on the PC the past few years with various web based Java/JS games.
I wonder how it all will play out. Will dedicated devices have room to coexist, or will developers start making "feature" games for the phones from looking at the hype and growth, and will people spend $20 or $30 on a 30 hour RPG for a cell phone and kill off dedicated devices?
One big advantage that dedicated devices have is that publishers know the hardware, whereas they might be making a game that's played on a whole gamut of resolutions, screen sizes, system resources, etc. Unpredictable environments like that would raise their cost for testing, more code, and more customer support.
So sure, you sell twice as many games for the phone, but you also increase your costs.
But I can still use an 8 year old iPod with iTunes, whereas many of the other players I've had in the past from larger companies like Samsung and others I can't even find download links for their media manager programs. And often without that software, music can't be loaded up onto the player.
webOS might have been good, but it isn't very widespread, and you're relying on one company to support it for at least a while. And as we see here, you would have been left holding the bags. What if some bug or exploit manifested itself and HP left the market. Would you be able to update your software? That type of uncertainty is what takes away from choosing webOS.
But isn't the market comprised of people looking to kill a few minutes here and there? So you end up with simple games of throwing bombs or something. A very different market to the more "hardcore" one where games take hours to complete.
Also, a touchscreen isn't a panacea of gaming. I have little interest in covering a third of my screen with my thumb or finger every time I want to do something. Would have somewhat taken from the experience, I'd reckon.
until I realized it ran webOS. If it was Android, it would be a different story. Honestly, what made them use webOS? And price this thing the same as the iPad? Were they setting themselves up for failure purposefully?
What most of these tabled companies don't realize is that no one will pay the same price as the iPad for their tables because they are much more likely to just bail out of 2 consecutive sales reports aren't gangbusters. Apple is here to stay, so why would anyone buy a product that will likely be abandoned in a "focus realignment" meeting between some MBAs.
And did you read mine? Obviously the sender not getting a bounce is their problem, but they still end up on YOUR helpdesk, wasting YOUR time. I was also responding to your comment on having defenses at the SMTP level, and I commented that they are basic, and can result in the aforementioned issue, so it isn't always the best solution. It is cheap in terms of processing, but has it's own drawbacks.
Does the kindle not let you switch the view to landscape? That should allow you to see half of a PDF page at a time, with full formatting and good size fonts. The Sony readers let you do that and most PDFs I tried are very readable that way, save for a few with fonts that aren't too legible even on a computer screen.
Why does it take an Apple gadget to bring this discussion up? From what I understand, the prices of motorcycles are also much higher than in the US, taking into account the exchange rate. But somehow the world is so in love with their electronic gadgets that it doesn't take much to get the government involved.
Sure, but SMTP checks will only go so far. They are very basic, often not even able to run a check against more than 1 line at a time. SpamAssassin filters are pretty detailed, so they do play a role, and I personally am surprised at the number of senders that don't seem to get a bounceback from a 5xx error. Instead they'll waste our helpdesk time to be told something was rejected due to an RBL, etc. So in that respect, checking against an RBL, adding a match to the score and tagging it can end up being less of a hassle in the long run.
Yup, I get virus discard notices from amavis from a few mail systems and those UPS ones just skyrocketed in the past week or so. Makes sense that they'd try to rebuild that way.
As far as I'm aware, pilots and crew have always complained about the full body screenings. It's just getting the system that amount of time to actually listen to them and decide to do something about it.
Advantage for whom? The TSA/airport/government? No.
For the crew themselves? Of course. They otherwise would have to get exposed to x-rays multiple times per day, something that we all agree probably *is* harmful to one's health, no matter what they'd like to have us believe.
Preventing people from re-entering the cabin by climbing isn't the most effective route. But the point still stands.
Distract the rest of the crew to leave the cockpit, then lock the door. These things have been re-enforced since 9/11 to prevent entry at all cost right? I doubt anyone would be able to get in. And you have full control.
I don't think that comparing this to the housing bubble is correct. At the very least, someone owns these homes, and will try to resell them, rent them out, etc. Will the government do the same? Or will they just sell the land, and have those build-outs get demolished? All that money paid to contractors and consultants, for naught.
I'd bet a private owner is more keen to squeeze every ounce of value out of a vacant home than the nameless, faceless bureaucracy of the federal government. Someone in there will just write a datacenter off and have it demolished w/out realizing the waste taking place.
And that's why many people are against raising taxes. There's so much waste happening in our government from pure incompetence. And that's not even mentioning malicious fraud. Paying more taxes is like giving money to a leader in Africa: you hope that just a fraction of it will end up going where it was meant to go.
A motorcycle analogy: we let the young and inexperienced riders buy bikes too shiny and too powerfull for them. And then they get scared of them in a light crash, we buy said bikes from them at deep discounts and end up with a brand new, albeit scratched, bike for half the price.
Sure, cuts are on the table these days. But how silly is it to spend millions to build datacenters only to shut them down? I just hope they sell them at a market price or rent them out. Maybe hire a management company to put customers in there. What a waste it would be. This is real money from everyone's pocket that's used to build a datacenter that will sit dormant. None of us would build a house just to let it sit empty.
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Who's to say the people working for the outsourced outfit weren't paid well? I'm sure the standard of living in India is a lot cheaper than in the US, so even though the wages are lower, they might be a windfall for that region.
I think the AC was saying that once the finance hubs move away from the US (which has already happened, I don't think that the US has any significant investment banks left, not sure though, but many of them definitely ceased to do IB activities) and start building up in Asia, then Wall Street will start fighting against outsourcing of work, such as all the financial stuff they overcharge their clients for. Then they'll join the assembly workers in the picket lines with signs and chants.
Gaming on touchscreen phones doesn't suck. It has it's strong points and uses. But I see it as a different market. It's the '5 minute time waster' market that was already growing on the PC the past few years with various web based Java/JS games.
I wonder how it all will play out. Will dedicated devices have room to coexist, or will developers start making "feature" games for the phones from looking at the hype and growth, and will people spend $20 or $30 on a 30 hour RPG for a cell phone and kill off dedicated devices?
One big advantage that dedicated devices have is that publishers know the hardware, whereas they might be making a game that's played on a whole gamut of resolutions, screen sizes, system resources, etc. Unpredictable environments like that would raise their cost for testing, more code, and more customer support.
So sure, you sell twice as many games for the phone, but you also increase your costs.
But I can still use an 8 year old iPod with iTunes, whereas many of the other players I've had in the past from larger companies like Samsung and others I can't even find download links for their media manager programs. And often without that software, music can't be loaded up onto the player.
webOS might have been good, but it isn't very widespread, and you're relying on one company to support it for at least a while. And as we see here, you would have been left holding the bags. What if some bug or exploit manifested itself and HP left the market. Would you be able to update your software? That type of uncertainty is what takes away from choosing webOS.
But isn't the market comprised of people looking to kill a few minutes here and there? So you end up with simple games of throwing bombs or something. A very different market to the more "hardcore" one where games take hours to complete.
Also, a touchscreen isn't a panacea of gaming. I have little interest in covering a third of my screen with my thumb or finger every time I want to do something. Would have somewhat taken from the experience, I'd reckon.
But how much is that $200 cellphone costing you over the lifespan of that 2 year contract?
until I realized it ran webOS. If it was Android, it would be a different story. Honestly, what made them use webOS? And price this thing the same as the iPad? Were they setting themselves up for failure purposefully?
What most of these tabled companies don't realize is that no one will pay the same price as the iPad for their tables because they are much more likely to just bail out of 2 consecutive sales reports aren't gangbusters. Apple is here to stay, so why would anyone buy a product that will likely be abandoned in a "focus realignment" meeting between some MBAs.
And did you read mine? Obviously the sender not getting a bounce is their problem, but they still end up on YOUR helpdesk, wasting YOUR time. I was also responding to your comment on having defenses at the SMTP level, and I commented that they are basic, and can result in the aforementioned issue, so it isn't always the best solution. It is cheap in terms of processing, but has it's own drawbacks.
Looks cool, but I really have no inkling to look at myself in a mirror while reading :/
Umm, eInk readers don't run Android. Maybe the LCD Nook does. But it isn't an eInk reader.
So you don't know that the DX is a 9" display but you're still making comments about the PDF reading experience on it? Something doesn't add up here.
Does the kindle not let you switch the view to landscape? That should allow you to see half of a PDF page at a time, with full formatting and good size fonts. The Sony readers let you do that and most PDFs I tried are very readable that way, save for a few with fonts that aren't too legible even on a computer screen.
Why does it take an Apple gadget to bring this discussion up? From what I understand, the prices of motorcycles are also much higher than in the US, taking into account the exchange rate. But somehow the world is so in love with their electronic gadgets that it doesn't take much to get the government involved.
Sure, but SMTP checks will only go so far. They are very basic, often not even able to run a check against more than 1 line at a time. SpamAssassin filters are pretty detailed, so they do play a role, and I personally am surprised at the number of senders that don't seem to get a bounceback from a 5xx error. Instead they'll waste our helpdesk time to be told something was rejected due to an RBL, etc. So in that respect, checking against an RBL, adding a match to the score and tagging it can end up being less of a hassle in the long run.
Reminds me of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue4m_2F8vJc
Yup, I get virus discard notices from amavis from a few mail systems and those UPS ones just skyrocketed in the past week or so. Makes sense that they'd try to rebuild that way.
As far as I'm aware, pilots and crew have always complained about the full body screenings. It's just getting the system that amount of time to actually listen to them and decide to do something about it.
Advantage for whom? The TSA/airport/government? No.
For the crew themselves? Of course. They otherwise would have to get exposed to x-rays multiple times per day, something that we all agree probably *is* harmful to one's health, no matter what they'd like to have us believe.
Preventing people from re-entering the cabin by climbing isn't the most effective route. But the point still stands.
Distract the rest of the crew to leave the cockpit, then lock the door. These things have been re-enforced since 9/11 to prevent entry at all cost right? I doubt anyone would be able to get in. And you have full control.
I don't think that comparing this to the housing bubble is correct. At the very least, someone owns these homes, and will try to resell them, rent them out, etc. Will the government do the same? Or will they just sell the land, and have those build-outs get demolished? All that money paid to contractors and consultants, for naught.
I'd bet a private owner is more keen to squeeze every ounce of value out of a vacant home than the nameless, faceless bureaucracy of the federal government. Someone in there will just write a datacenter off and have it demolished w/out realizing the waste taking place.
And that's why many people are against raising taxes. There's so much waste happening in our government from pure incompetence. And that's not even mentioning malicious fraud. Paying more taxes is like giving money to a leader in Africa: you hope that just a fraction of it will end up going where it was meant to go.
Somewhat like burning a $100 bill so that a crook won't get their hands on it.
A motorcycle analogy: we let the young and inexperienced riders buy bikes too shiny and too powerfull for them. And then they get scared of them in a light crash, we buy said bikes from them at deep discounts and end up with a brand new, albeit scratched, bike for half the price.
Sure, cuts are on the table these days. But how silly is it to spend millions to build datacenters only to shut them down? I just hope they sell them at a market price or rent them out. Maybe hire a management company to put customers in there. What a waste it would be. This is real money from everyone's pocket that's used to build a datacenter that will sit dormant. None of us would build a house just to let it sit empty.